Shotest Day

[Tugmistress]

Today - at 18.35 GMT to be precise - is the winter solstice. Take cheer, as from now on the only way is up - the days lengthen and the nights become shorter as we hurtle towards midsummer in six short months.

Above quoted from 'the scotsman' :D

[brandy]

yeah!!!!!!!

[Rheghead]

The original reason to enjoy some festive cheer!:D

[MadPict]

Wondered what a "shotest day" was.....

[Tugmistress]

Wondered what a "shotest day" was.....

lol, fingers went too fast on the post button, but if you take rhegheads idea it works quite well as a title ;)

[htwood]

Here's one of my faves.

The Shortest Day
By Susan Cooper

And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, revelling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us - listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!